Thinking Nude, 1994
Relief print in colors on BFK Rives paper
Approximately 42 1/8 × 61 3/4 in. (107 × 156.8 cm)
Edition of 40
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Printed and published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York
Corlett 289
Monumental in scale, Thinking Nude presents one of the series’ most contemplative figures. Lichtenstein juxtaposes the intimacy of a woman seemingly lost in thought with a complex field of dots, lines, patterns and spatial interruptions. The result is both psychologically engaging and formally ambitious—an exceptional example of the artist transforming familiar Pop imagery into sophisticated late-career abstraction.
